ynniv/faux-md2html

A parser and HTML formatter for a trivial subset of Markdown

md2html: A Toy Markdown-Subset Parser

Setup: npm i Building: npm run-script build Testing: npm test Running: node md2html-cli <file>

Tests are located in spec/md2htmlSpec.js.

The basic outline is to tokenize the input, create a parse tree from the tokens, and then format the parse tree into the appropriate output. This is a simple abstracted flow but keeps the full parsed document in memory, limiting its ability to operate on very large documents. A quick check suggests that it will parse 4MB in about one second using 160MB of memory (40MB per 1MB of input).

Whitespace is not preserved, which results in a single space around elements even when the input has none. For example (link)[url]. becomes <a href="url">link</a> . (note the space after the <a> tag.)

Features

Only a few syntaxes are supported:

• ###-style headers
• links
• multi-line paragraphs